The European Space Agency, in the context of the Scientific Exploitationof Operational Missions (SEOM) programme element, is organising an eventdedicated to prepare for scientific exploitation of the Sentinel-3mission, entitled "Sentinel-3 for Science Workshop", which will be...

Cyclone Hagupit, also known as Ruby, hit the Philippines earlier this week. Fortunately the area escaped the same devastation that it experienced last year when hit by Typhoon Haiyan. See BBC news for more information.

Typhoon Hagupit (called Ruby in the Philippines) has now intensified into a Super Typhoon. It is due to make landfall Saturday evening local time, affecting many of the same areas which were hit by Typhoon Haiyan ...

The eSurge project is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its next training event, Using Earth Observation Data in Storm Surge Forecasting Systems, which will take place at the WMO's premises in Geneva on 2-4 December 2014....

Unfortunately ISRO have today announced the discontinuation of services from the Oceansat-2 Scatterometer (OSCAT). The OSCAT data dissemination had already been turned off since 24th February 2014, due to severe degradation of the data. However it should be noted that the instrument was close to...

During the night of 12th February, the UK experienced its first "red alert" of this winter. Strong winds, with gusts of over 100mph, were recorded across much of the country, with at least one fatality caused. (More from BBC news.)

Over the Christmas and New Year period, the UK and Ireland have been hit by several major storms. This has caused major flooding from both heavy rainfall and storm surges, as well as high winds and exceptional wave swell. Coastal flooding has been recorded in many areas.

Flood warnings are in place on the UK east coast and the southern North Sea, with a storm surge from an winter storm expected to combine with high tides to give the potential for significant coastal flooding. As an example, the figure below shows the ...

According to the reports from the areas worst hit by Typhoon Haiyan, the storm surge may have largely exceeded the predictions in places and reached 5 m. One of the places with the highest surge appears to be Tacloban airport...

Tropical Cyclone Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, is currently impacting the Philippines. The storm has extremely high winds, up to 215kph. Several fatalities are already reported and more are likely.

The eSurge project has just released new coastal altimetry data for the Envisat mission. Envisat altimeter tracks have been reprocessed using our new ALES (Adaptive Leading Edge Sub-Waveform) retracker. Data are available for all storm surge events in our database during the lifetime of the...

The latest eSurge newsletter is now available! This describes the latest developments in the eSurge project, including new surge events, our ongoing eSurge Live service and the latest available coastal altimetry data.

The eSurge team invites you to apply for our training course in Applying EO Data to Storm Surge Modelling and Forecasting, to be held at the National Maritime College of Ireland, Cork, on February 20th and 21st, 2014. To apply, please go to the...

(Update 23/9/13) Due to a late change in direction, Usagi avoided a direct hit on Hong Kong. However other parts of the Chinese coast were hit badly, with at least 25 dead in Guangdong province. See news reports from BBC,...

Data for tropical storm Mahasen are now available in the eSurge database. Mahasen made landfall in Bangladesh earlier this month (16th May). Although it had been expected to cause a significant storm surge, it...

The city of Venice has been hit by snowstorms and a 143cm aqua alta - leading to scenes looking more like the arctic than Italy. To make matters worse, the storms hit just before both the final day of Carnivale and Valentines data.

UK newspaper 'The Mirror' reported a storm surge event at Rakwena Crocodile farm in Limpopo, South Africa. 15000 crocodiles had to be released to prevent them from being crushed by rising floodwaters, and although many have been recaptured, thousands of the reptiles - which can grow to 5 metres...

ESA's Soil Moisure and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) has been used to capture novel measurements of hurricane Sandy. A method developed by Ifremer and CLS, of France, has been used to estimate wind speeds using microwave measurements.

At the start of October, a new Geographical Mode Mask has been implemented for the CryoSat mission. This mask determines the instrument modes used by the satellite over different parts of the globe. It has been revised to take into consideration the needs of the oceanographic, coastal...

Thank you to all of you who attended the eSurge workshop "Satallite Data for Storm Surge Modelling and Forecasting" in Copenhagen last week. We hope that you found it both enjoyable and informative. We certainly did, and we look forward to working with you to realise some of the needs identified...

Thank you to all of you who have registered for the upcoming workshop on Satellite Data for Storm Surge Modelling and Forecasting. As the workshop is only a few weeks away, we wanted to let you know that the draft agenda is now available online: ...

Since losing contact with Envisat on 8th April, the European Space Agency has been repeatedly trying to regain control of the satellite, but to no avail. Although engineers will continue their attempts, the...

The eSurge project has been set up by ESA to promote the use of Earth Observation Data for Storm Surge applications, both by making it easier to access this data and by demonstrating its usefulness. As part of the project, we are organising a workshop, Satellite Data for Storm Surge...

The eSurge Requirements Baseline (RB) document is now available for public review on the project documents page. This document summarises the requirements that we will use while implementing eSurge in the coming months.

Measurements of powerful, complex and highly variable surface and subsurface currents are fundamental to a large number of scientific and operational activities around the world. Earth Observation provides a unique and increasing capability to measure and monitor ocean...

The latest workshop in the Coastal Altimetry series, bringing together scientists working on development and applications of altimetry in the coastal zone, was held earlier this month in San Diego, USA.

During July 2011, we contacted as many members of the storm surge community as we could, requesting that they respond to our user questionnaire. The results of this user questionnaire will be used to finalise the requirements baseline for the eSurge project, and hence to determine...